My clutch chatters like hell but I love the thing. I've launched it with Drag Radials spraying out of the hole and it GRABS. That is what I was looking for and that is what I got.

 

man did not know that this topic was going to cause such a stir, well its been about a week with the new clutch and me and my good friend MEANLT1
went cruising on sat. and that was the longest i have driven the car since the heads and cam and clutch, I must say that i am getting the hang of it and i am really happy. i mean with just the mods i have in my sig i can chrp3rd hard and if i roll slowly into 2nd and stand on it it smokes the tires and these are new treads so im very impressed and happy. thanks alot for everyones help and advice you guys are great

 

So......heatmaker never did say which clutch he uses now, did he?

 

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Glad things are working out and that you've learned a technique to keep your teeth in your head.
Now all you have to worry about is the diff.

 

yea you definitely do need to adapt to a spec clutch to minimize the chatter. I let mine out pretty quick when i take off, and sometimes it even chirps the tires a bit... but its a lot less chattery that way. Spec 3(and above) clutches are designed to be in or out... theyre engineered not to slip, so naturally theyre not gonna like it when you try to slip them.

 

Yes I had to do the same thing with the RAM. Engagement was short and sweet most of time having to double clutch when in traffic or at a light.

 

Let's dig this thing back up. My SPEC experience... 5 years ago I installed a stage II clutch. It lasted for 3 weeks before a piece of it broke off which caused it to be continually engaged. Thought I might have been the problem so I took it to a professional. He took it out and installed a stock clutch. It lasted 70K abusive miles. This time around (1 week ago) I still had that SPEC stage II sitting in my garage from 5 years ago and thought I would utilize my free clutch. It has been in since Thursday and is chattering at idle in neutral and I have a serious driveline vibration between 2500 and 3000 rpm when going through the gears. I am going to my exhaust shop to see if the guy that put the clutch in left some of the exhaust touching the chassis somewhere. Some rpm's it's quiet as heck, nice and smooth, other rpms it's like driving a damn jack hammer... The clutch might have 200 miles on it now. We'll see. If it keeps it up I don't know what I will throw in it. $1300 for McLeod is a little high right now.